conservative policies
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- CONSERVATIVE POLICIES (1979-97)
- LIMITED STATE INTERVENTION
- viewed family as a private institution & thought state intervention should be limited
- REDUCED WELFARE STATE & INTRODUCED MEANS TESTING
- people earning less get more benefits
- may reduce migration - people may not want to be tested
- may decrease fertility rate
- FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING NUCLEAR FAMILY
- functionalist & new right agree
- FAMILY LAW ACT 1996
- introduced a 1 year cooling off period before a couple could get a divorce - feminists disagree
- could lead to empty shell marriages
- functionalists & new right agree
- CHILD BENEFITS GIVEN TO MOTHER
- feminists - enforces a patriarchal society
- PREFERENTIAL TAX ALLOWENCES
- encouraged a division of labour
- MARITAL R A P E MADE ILLEGAL
- decline in birth rate
- CHILD SUPPORT ACT 1991
- development of child support agency - father gives financial support to mother & child - functionalists agree - promotes nuclear family
- LIMITED STATE INTERVENTION
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